Florence Nightingale's Call to Serve

When Florence Nightingale and her nurses showed up in the British war hospitals at Scutari, on the Crimean front, conditions were worse than they had ...

"Emperor's Club": Ambition Without Contribution Is Insignificant

In the movie Emperor's Club Kevin Cline portrays an instructor of Western civilization in a prestigious private school. It is the first day of class, ...

Husband is Sensitive to Wife's Dreams

Jerry Bridges writes in The Discipline of Grace:

My wife and I went shopping for a coffee table. We'd agreed on the style we wanted and very quickly ...

Barth Challenges Bonhoeffer to Return to Germany

In 1933, Karl Barth wrote his discouraged colleague Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Disgusted with the German Christian response to Hitler, Bonhoeffer had fled Germany ...

"Band of Brothers, Episode 5": Leading Alone

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed series "Band of Brothers" retells the heroics of Easy Company during World War II.

After the success of the ...

Self-Sacrifice for a Terrorist

Canadian journalist Bronwyn Drainie describes the surprising behavior of a haredi woman—an ultra-orthodox Jew—at a Jerusalem street market. ...

Alaskan Mushers Deliver Life-Saving Serum

Long before the legendary Iditarod Dog Sled Race was first run in 1973, a more important race took place in Alaska. On January 21, 1925, the lives of ...

Do the Right Thing Anyway

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. ...

Madonna on Her Me-Me Universe

Referring to her life before children, Madonna says, "I would have been a lot more selfish. I had no kids, so it was a very "Me-me-me universe. ...

Thomas Aquinas' Sacrifice for Christ

In Naples, Thomas [Aquinas] possessed his own residence, his own retinue, and a host of servants. With plumes and flowing silks, he took up riding on ...